Blood Culture Test at St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center
2510 N California St, Stockton, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1053443473
$329.47
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$577.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$10.32 with Kaiser vs $337.60 with Cigna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -97% |
| DHR | Medicaid|All Plans | $42.20 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $71.44 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $96.58 | ↓ -71% |
| DHR | Commercial|All Plans | $118.16 | ↓ -64% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $211.00 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $223.66 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $223.66 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $223.66 | ↓ -32% |
| Magellan | Commercial|All Plans | $253.20 | ↓ -23% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $303.84 | ↓ -8% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $308.06 | ↓ -6% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $324.94 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $337.60 | ↑ +2% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $337.60 | ↑ +2% |
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Blood Culture Test at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $193.46 | $8.77 – $423.12 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $257.11 | $10.32 – $32.20 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $17.30 | $2.06 – $30.07 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $417.18 | $10.11 – $84.25 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $285.05 | $10.32 – $36.26 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $273.73 | $10.32 – $196.98 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $261.08 | $10.32 – $39.20 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $221.86 | $10.32 – $156.80 |